Times Higher Education Lourdes Guardia and Marcelo Maina January 26, 2023 Why and how to make e-portfolios a central part of university courses, helping students identify and exhibit skills that will appeal to employers, by Lourdes Guàrdia and Marcelo Maina The mismatch between graduate readiness for entering the workplace and […]
Inside Higher Ed Josh Moody January 26, 2023 Hilbert College, a nonprofit Catholic institution in New York, is purchasing for-profit Valley College, which has four sites in Ohio and West Virginia. That makes for an unusual match. Hilbert College is marrying outside the faith. The four-year Roman Catholic nonprofit college […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott January 26, 2023 The Skills First Coalition, a group of American businesses and education and training providers, wants the 118th Congress to pass legislation that would expand Pell Grants to short-term programs, improve the transfer of credits between higher education institutions and support new approaches […]
Ed Source Ashley A. Smith January 25, 2023 Some campuses could see budget cuts Decreases in Cal State enrollment have officials worried. Interim Chancellor Jolene Koester first warned last year that enrollment projections were down across the 23 campus system. She now concludes that those drops are real and can […]
Arkansas Times Debra Hale-Shelton January 24, 2023 A nonprofit entity affiliated with the University of Arkansas System has been in discussions about a potential purchase of the for-profit University of Phoenix, a spokesman for the UA System confirmed today. The University of Phoenix is one of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges. “Because these […]
Ed Source January 20, 2023 Seeking to recruit more transfer students, UC identified 65 colleges where it wants to deepen existing partnerships he University of California is planning to expand outreach at more than half of the state’s community colleges in an effort to increase the number of students who successfully […]
Forbes Guy Tytunovich January 20, 2023 Guy Tytunovich is the founder and CEO of CHEQ, a leader in go-to-market security. Higher education is in a state of drastic transition. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have had to rapidly adapt to the challenges posed by the virus, […]
Inside Higher Ed Sara Weissman January 18, 2023 Community colleges gained dual-enrollment students but lost recent high school grads and adult learners at high rates, according to a recent analysis of federal enrollment data. Recently released federal higher education data show community college enrollment trends during the first two years of the pandemic differed […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott January 18, 2023 The Office of Federal Student Aid didn’t follow best practices in budgeting, planning and managing the modernization of its student loan system, the Education Department’s Office of Inspector General found in an audit published Tuesday. FSA staff didn’t complete budget requests for many components […]
Higher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz January 17, 2023 Dive Brief: Three higher education institutions filed notices last week that they intend to appeal a $6 billion settlement from the U.S. Department of Education that would automatically clear federal student loan debts for roughly 200,000 borrowers who say their colleges defrauded […]